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1987 The National Science Foundation (NSF) signs a $14 million, five-

year agreement with IBM, MCI, and the Michigan Educational

Research Information Triad to manage the network.

1988 Robert Morris, Jr. releases a "worm" into the Internet. Many

computers grind to a halt.

1990 CERN (the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Switzerland)

develops the World Wide Web.

1991 NSF lifts the restrictions against commercial use of the

Internet. DoDDS starts using CC:Mail.

1992 Congress establishes the National Research and Education

Network (NREN) as a vision of a national network to serve the

educational and research communities. NREN has not been

funded.

1993 President Clinton becomes the first head of state to use the

Internet for electronic messaging. His address is

president@whitehouse.gov.

1994 Digital video and audio transmit over the Internet.

1995 The DoDDS schools in Okinawa establish Internet connections.

Sekilas Info

Internet mengalami pertumbuhan yang sangat baik dan sangat pesat saat ini.
Dari data statistik yang didapatkan, pada tahun 1995 terdapat 30 juta

pengguna, pada tahun 1998 terdapat 100 juta pengguna, pertumbuhannya
10% tiap bulan dan diprediksi tahun 2010 semua orang akan terhubung ke
internet e-mail dan 75% mendominasi hubungan business.

Mengenal Internet dan Jaringan Lokal Kelas VIII SMP 8